| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w21257 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 21257 |
| Welfare Rules, Incentives, and Family Structure | |
| Robert A. Moffitt; Brian J. Phelan; Anne E. Winkler | |
| 发表日期 | 2015-06-15 |
| 出版年 | 2015 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We provide a new examination of the incentive effects of welfare rules on family structure among low-income women by emphasizing that the eligibility and benefit rules in the AFDC and TANF programs are based more on the biological relationship between the children and any male in the household than on marriage or cohabitation per se. Using data from 1996 through 2008, we analyze the effects of 1990s welfare reforms on family structure categories that incorporate the biological status of the male. Like past work, we find that most policies did not affect family structure. However, we do find that several work-related reforms increased single parenthood and decreased marriage to biological fathers. These results are especially evident when multiple work-related policies were implemented together and when we examine the longer term impacts of the policies. We posit that these effects of work-related welfare policies on family structure stem from their effects on increased labor force participation and earnings of single mothers combined with factors special to biological fathers, including a decline in their employment and wages. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Poverty and Wellbeing ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w21257 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/578932 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Robert A. Moffitt,Brian J. Phelan,Anne E. Winkler. Welfare Rules, Incentives, and Family Structure. 2015. |
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